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[Short-term and medium-term efficacy of mesotherapy in patients with lower back pain due to spondyloarthrosis]
No full text[Case report: Iatrogenic shoulder pain syndrome following spinal accessory nerve injury during lateral cervical neck dissection for tongue cancer: the role of rehabilitation and ethical-deontological issues]
No full textEffects of capacitive and resistive electric transfer therapy in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled trial
No full textCapacitive and resistive electric transfer (CRET), an endogenous diathermy treatment, has been demonstrated to reduce pain and improve quality of life in numerous orthopedic degenerative and inflammatory problems but not in knee osteoarthritis (KOA). The aim of this prospective randomized controlled trial was to evaluate whether a 2-week program of CRET can reduce pain, stiffness and functional limitations in KOA compared with a sham treatment. Patients with KOA were randomly assigned to a study group (n = 31) or a control one (n = 22). The study group underwent six intermittent CRET applications, whereas the controls underwent a sham protocol without application of energy. The outcome measures were the Western Ontario and McMaster University Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) (primary outcome) and the visual analogue scale (VAS) for pain and Medical Research Council Scale (secondary outcomes). All patients were evaluated before treatment (T0), at the end of treatment (T1), and at 1 (T2) and 3 months after treatment (T3). Results showed that CRET significantly improved strength, physical function and pain in patients with KOA. In the study group a reduction in WOMAC and VAS scores was observed at T1, T2, and T3 compared with T0. No significant changes of WOMAC and VAS scores were observed in the control group across all time points. Considering the small number of sessions, low cost and long-term benefits, CRET might be a useful therapeutic option for the conservative management of KOA to reduce pain, stiffness and functional limitation
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Efficacy of intradermal administration of diclofenac for the treatment of non specific chronic low back pain: results from a retrospective observational study
No full textIntradermal administration of analgesic drugs with mesotherapy is effective for the local treatment of musculoskeletal pain. Few studies analyzed the effects of different drugs administrated with this technique.BACKGROUND:
Intradermal administration of analgesic drugs with mesotherapy is effective for the local treatment of musculoskeletal pain. Few studies analyzed the effects of different drugs administrated with this technique.
AIM:
To compare the efficacy of diclofenac versus lysine acetylsalicylate-based mesotherapy in relieving pain (primary outcome), and disability (secondary outcome) in patients with non- specific chronic low back pain.
DESIGN:
Retrospective observational study.
SETTING:
Outpatient rehabilitation medicine center.
POPULATION:
Records of 101 patients with non specific chronic low back pain METHODS: Data were extracted from the outpatients records of patients affected by non-specific chronic low back pain since 12 weeks before, treated with 5 sessions of mesotherapy with diclofenac mixtures (Group A) or aspirin-lysine acetylsalicylate mixture (Group B). Assessments recorded were taken before the first treatment (T0), at the end of the 5-week treatment (T1), and at 4 (T2) and 12 weeks (T3) of follow-up after the last treatment, using a pain visual analogue scale (VAS) primary outcome, Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) secondary outcome, and the Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ) Comparisons within and between groups were performed using the t-test, the chi-square test, and analysis of variance (ANOVA) models, as appropriate.
RESULTS:
101 patients' records consecutively were analysed, 51 in Group A (mean age and standard deviation (SD) = 62,8±10,7; F/M=33/18) and 50 in Group B (mean age ± SD=64,1±15,8; F/M=30/20). At baseline VAS, SF-MPQ, ODI scores were respectively 7.6±1.3, 22,49±9.96, 44.80±15.55 (mean and SD) in group A; VAS, SF-MPQ, ODI scores were respectively 6.7±1.6, 18.66±9.65, 39.04±16.06(mean and SD) in group B. Mean differences between Group A and Group B in the changes of scores from baseline (T0) to end of study (T3) were -1,3 (VAS), -5,81 (SF-MPQ) and -17,05 (ODI). Mesotherapy induced significant reductions in pain severity and disability in both groups with better results in diclofenac-based treatment.
CONCLUSIONS:
This retrospective pilot study suggests the efficacy and safety of diclofenac mesotherapy for relieving pain and disability in patients affected by chronic non-specific low back pain in a convenient sample but further studies will confirm these results
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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